Observations focused on the problems of an underdeveloped country, Venezuela, with some serendipity about the world (orchids, techs, science, investments, politics) at large. A famous Venezuelan, Juan Pablo Perez Alfonzo, referred to oil as the devil's excrement. For countries, easy wealth appears indeed to be the sure path to failure. Venezuela might be a clear example of that.

Archive for February 23rd, 2004

Sometimes traditional media outstounds me, like this report in CNN with their reporter in Iran, explaining why the reformers lost:

They lost a good deal of credibility with the Iranian public because they failed to initiate many of the reforms they had promised.

But at the end of the day, they failed to deliver on important issues. And in some cases when many people expected them to stand up to the hardliners’ excesses outside parliament, they proved feeble.

Is this guy stupid or what? Two thousand of their reformist candidates are banned from running, including 87 members of the current Parlamient, two major newspapers which are pro-reformist are shutdown, the reformists call for a boycott of the election and they lost because they failed to deliver?And they call this anlysis? Let’s hope they don’t send this guy to Venezuela now.

Sometimes traditional media outstounds me, like this report in CNN with their reporter in Iran, explaining why the reformers lost:

They lost a good deal of credibility with the Iranian public because they failed to initiate many of the reforms they had promised.

But at the end of the day, they failed to deliver on important issues. And in some cases when many people expected them to stand up to the hardliners’ excesses outside parliament, they proved feeble.

Is this guy stupid or what? Two thousand of their reformist candidates are banned from running, including 87 members of the current Parlamient, two major newspapers which are pro-reformist are shutdown, the reformists call for a boycott of the election and they lost because they failed to deliver?And they call this anlysis? Let’s hope they don’t send this guy to Venezuela now.